Dr Becca Voelcker

Biography

Dr Becca Voelcker is currently a Research Fellow on the AHRC/ DfG project, Architecture after architecture: Spatial Practice in the Face of the Climate Emergency.
She earned her PhD at Harvard University in 2021. Her dissertation, Land Cinema in the Neoliberal Age, studies a global corpus of films made by gardener-filmmakers and farmer-filmmakers in the 1970s and 80s that contribute to Leftist and environmental thought.
Before her doctoral studies, she was based in Tokyo as a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholar, and studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London and King’s College, University of Cambridge.
She uses a comparative methodology to research histories and theories of global film, with a specialisation in East Asia, particularly Japan. Much of her work focuses on women filmmakers, and independent cinema concerned with the politics of place in relation to the body, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic mobility.
Her writings appear in Screen, MIRAJ and elsewhere. She is a critic for the BFI’s Sight & Sound, Film Comment, and Frieze. She grew up bilingually in North Wales.